I'm using Yahoo classic mail, and I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually supposed to save replies but is simply bugged. Just before writing this, I decided to see if Yahoo was aware of the problem.
If the mail system doesn't have the option of returning the original message along with the "message too long" email then I think things should just stay how they already are. If the maximum email length was increased then I agree we would just end up with every post containing the past 50 posts tacked on to the end. I was jumping in to give my support to any way that would return the original messages, but if it isn't offered by the program then pretty much the entire discussion can be ignored. Losing the original message is annoying, but that's just how the system works. --- On Sat, 8/18/12, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] a bone to pick > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Date: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 1:17 AM > Hi Jeremey, > > That maybe so, but I don't see a solution to this problem. > What's your > suggestion to resolve this problem? > > Itseems to me anything we might suggest wouldn'tsatisfy > everyone. > There would be just as many issues and hassles with the > solution =as > the current problem. > > A: We could remove the message limits. The problem is the > people who > don't have to trim won't. Therefore sooner than later > instead of small > messages that are 10 KB in size will grow to 100 KB with no > end in > sight. I've been on lists like that where I could read the > contents of > an entire thread in one single message, and that's just > rediculous. It > takes longer to open that message in a e-mail client, takes > longer to > download, and for people in foreign countries that > have to pay for > the amount of bandwidth etc they use is more expensive. > > B: We could double the message length to 20 KB. > Unfortunately, we are > back to where we started. If someone responds to a message > without > trimming or whatever and it ends up being rejected because > it is 21 KB > in size people will complain that it was either unfairly > rejected or > want a copy of their message back so they can edit it. > that's not > possible to do through Mailman as far as I know. > > C: We can copy the original messages into a new e-mail, mail > it back > to the original senders, which will double the work of > the > moderators. If we have 10 messages that day and 8 get > rejected the > moderator gets stuck with returning 8 messages simply > because the > original poster didn't follow the list guidelines for one > reason or > another. That's not especially fair to the moderator who > does not have > to return messages that are disgarded or rejected. > > D: We could edit and forward messages.That is we, the > moderators, > could edit the messages and then forward them on to the > list. This is > probably the only fair solution for the problem for end > users but > royally sucks from a moderator point of view because we got > stuck with > all the work. If we do all the work what will convince the > list > members to make those kinds of corrections themselves when > they have > the list moderator there to do it for them? > > On 8/17/12, Jeremy Kaldobsky <jer...@kaldobsky.com> > wrote: > > I completely and totally agree. A few times I've > forgotten to remove the > > excess past posts material and my message was > rejected. The worst part > > about the situation is that they were almost always > very long posts that > > took me a while to write. When that happens it's > the most depressing thing > > that knocks you down so hard that you don't even feel > like trying to retype > > it all out again. You know that even if you do, > it will somehow turn out to > > be half as long and only 10% of the quality of the lost > original. If we had > > the original back, then we could make the necessary > correction and post it > > again. > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
